Former residents of Revilletown—an African-American community torn down 25 years ago in Iberville Parish—are trying to preserve a cemetery founded by ancestors there...
Read moreForgotten graves at University of Virginia likely belonged to black slaves
A piece of black colonial history may have been unearthed after a hidden grave site was discovered adjacent to the University of Virginia campus. Sixty-seven unmarked...
Read moreUniversity of Kansas showcases historic black photography online
The Leon K. Hughes Photograph Collection is a chronicle of African American family and community life in Wichita, Kansas from the late 1940s through the 1970s...
Read moreHistoric slave cemetery artifacts returned to James City
When Ben A. Watford and Earl Mills recently went to Eastern Carolina University to get duplicates of some artifacts from a slave cemetery in James City, they got much...
Read moreAsheville’s Sasha Mitchell helps families find their roots
Sasha Mitchell was a fourth-grader in New Jersey when her class did a family history project and she innocently contributed photos of her white mother and...
Read moreAfrican American history buried in unusual places
Katie Brown Bennett was whirling through reel after reel of microfilm when she found her great-great-grandfather Squire Cheshier. It was not a birth certificate that...
Read morePassion drives effort to preserve history, search for roots
Candice McKnight all but moves mountains to help people find their roots. But it was on an imposing rock set down in a stranger’s yard in Missouri that she looked her...
Read moreWhen Family Trees Are Gnarled by Race
My paternal grandfather, Marshall Staples (1898-1969), was one of the millions of black Southerners who moved north in the Great Migration. Those of us in the family...
Read moreResearchers to reveal lost African-American historical record
The experiences of African-Americans in the Las Vegas area during its segregationist past have generally been portrayed in depictions of iconic showroom entertainers...
Read moreRelatives come from across nation to pay respects at black cemetery
In a once-forgotten cemetery, surrounded by family, both living and dead, 91-year-old Leon Lewis spoke of his heritage. “This is the starting place of my ancestors,”...
Read moreLibrary makes available ‘African American Newspapers, 1827-1998’
The University of Delaware Library announces the online access to a much acclaimed new database, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, which will provide online...
Read moreSketching The Family Tree, Discovering His Family’s History
Lawrence Jackson went through most of his life not knowing much about his family history. He didn’t even know the names of his great-grandparents. That...
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